Ansar al-Sharia in Mauritania

Ansar al-Sharia in Mauritania was a Salafist jihadist terror organization in Mauritania which was founded on 11 February 2013 by Ahmed Salem al-Hasan. Its leaders were formerly imprisoned at the Dar Naim central prison, and it had the goals of combating secularists, implementing sharia, and reinstating the role of Islamic scholars in the nation. It was joined by some extremist imams from local mosques as well as a few Mauritanian Islamist politicians.